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The embattled UGANDA LGBTQ+ community urgently need our HELP
When Uganda passed its brutal Anti-Homosexuality Bill earlier this year, it meant that LGBTQIA+ people potentially face the death penalty if convicted of “aggravated homosexuality” Homosexuality is now punishable by up to 20 years in prison and fines. and they can also impose life imprisonment for those convicted of having sexual intercourse with…
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The number of LGBTQ+ politicians who head governments and/or countries is growing (albeit slowly)
Hot on the heels of the recent news that Andorra’s prime minister, Xavier Espot Zamora, has come out as gay, Greece is following suit. 35-year-old Greek-American businessman Stefanos Kasselakis was elected to lead the largest opposition party in Greece on Sunday, becoming the first out-gay leader of a political party in the country’s history…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ‘Trompe L’Oeil’ a queer parody cabaret/musical at The Other Palace
Trompe L’Oeil ✩✩✩ The Other Palace Anarchic and already strangely anachronistic Trompe L’Oeil, (pronounced Trump Loyal) is a Cabaret-ish satire of the strange and unprecedented ascent of Trump to the highest office on earth. Written by Henry Parkman Briggs and performed at the Other Palace Trompe L’Oeil can only be described as surreal. Except…
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The Copla Musical : how a drag sensation, finds love… yet always struggles to merge her Spanish past with her American future.
The copla is a form of Spanish popular genre of risqué cabaret songs which had its heyday in the 1930s. The lyrics often feature marginalized characters, including prostitutes, sailors, escaped convicts, gypsies, and so on, and have themes based on the “illegitimacy of all relationships outside the recognized heterosexual marriage” (i.e., mistreated women,…
